New talent to lead GlobalConnect Australia sales

Carnell will be based at the company’s headquarters in Sydney where he will lead the sales team and attempt to expand GlobalConnect’s penetration into the enterprise and government sectors.

GlobalConnect Australia is a wholly owned subsidiary of Avaya GlobalConnect, Asia Pacific’s largest Avaya partner and reseller. The company develops and supports converged communication solutions across various software, hardware and applications.

Carnell brings experience in enterprise sales to the role gained from a three year tenure with Alcatel-Lucent as vice president of enterprise sales for Australasia. He said his initial focus will be split between supporting existing customers while concentrating on generating business in new market sectors.

"GlobalConnect Australia has amazing potential to utilise the strength of its internal resources to benefit current and prospective customers, and I’m dedicated to building on this already great reputation in the market,” he said.

“My focus will be to drive our strategy of delivering superior customer satisfaction to our existing accounts and demonstrating to prospective business what their organisation can achieve by partnering with GlobalConnect Australia as their systems integrator.”

Pushkar Taneja, Managing Director, GlobalConnect Australia, said that Carnell's wealth of industry experience will be an asset to the company as it approaches the new financial year.

"Rob has a depth of knowledge about strategy, sales and converged IP communications and I am excited he will be putting it to work across our Australia-wide sales team," he said.